Alternate Picking

Today we will learn about alternate picking and how to get Fast at it. Lets Start!
Alternate Picking is just picking in alternate strokes.
Example: Downstroke,upstroke,Downstroke,upstroke.....etc
an example of songs that are required to do this is
Rattlehead by Megadeth

Again Just Focus on Clarity and Precision if you hear palm mutes, buzzing, or the wrong note start over and keep trying until you get it right. If you don't you are only hurting yourself.
Use your own exercises with alternate picking. Because the best exercises are the ones that you make up.
Once You get the concept down Try Master of Puppets

illyria wrote:
These Metallica songs require you to Alternate pick if you want to sound the same as they do pretty much. according to friend of mine many trash metal bands including metallica use mainly downpicks for the "crunchy" sound they produce

Sorry to break it to ya but there is a difference between alternate picking and tremelo picking. Alternate picking is just a technique used to pick up your speed. tremello picking is taking a note and striking it as many times as you can with in the note value. it is usually in a combination of notes. like if you took a series of four quarter notes that decend from B to A to G to E, you would try to hit the note as many times as you can. the exact number of notes is not necessary just the rhythm of them.